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<item><title>Why Retention is Your #1 Weapon to Drive Expansion Revenue and How to Track</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/strategy/why-retention-is-your-weapon</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/strategy/why-retention-is-your-weapon</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Strategy</category><description>Podcast by Nick Franklin, ChartMogul.</description></item>
<item><title>Transforming Customer Input Into Killer Features</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/strategy/transforming-customer-input-into-killer-features</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/strategy/transforming-customer-input-into-killer-features</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Strategy</category><description>Talk by Derrick Reimer, SavvyCal.</description></item>
<item><title>Top Tough Management Lessons: Founding a $3.8 Billion Market Leader</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/leadership/top-tough-management-lessons</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/leadership/top-tough-management-lessons</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Leadership</category><description>Talk by Auren Hoffman, SafeGraph.</description></item>
<item><title>Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Became A CEO</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/leadership/things-i-wish-someone-told-me-before-i-became-a-ceo</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/leadership/things-i-wish-someone-told-me-before-i-became-a-ceo</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Leadership</category><description>Text Interview by Dmytro Okunyev, Chanty.</description></item>
<item><title>Shutting Down and Starting Up</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/learning-from-mistakes/shutting-down-and-starting-up</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/learning-from-mistakes/shutting-down-and-starting-up</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Learning from mistakes</category><description>Podcast by Derrick Reimer, SavvyCal.</description></item>
<item><title>My Favorite Bootstrapped SaaS Founder ($122k MRR)</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/bootstrapping/my-favorite-bootstrapped-saas-founder</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/bootstrapping/my-favorite-bootstrapped-saas-founder</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Bootstrapping</category><description>Podcast by Dmytro Okunyev, Chanty.</description></item>
<item><title>Leading A High Growth Company</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/leadership/leading-a-high-growth-company</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/leadership/leading-a-high-growth-company</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Leadership</category><description>Talk by David Cancel, Drift.</description></item>
<item><title>How We Got One Million Customers and Where We Will Go Next</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/founder-stories/how-we-got-one-million-customers-and-where-we-will-go-next</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/founder-stories/how-we-got-one-million-customers-and-where-we-will-go-next</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Founder stories</category><description>Talk by Valentin Stalf, N26.</description></item>
<item><title>How To Make It Big In The US As A Non-US SaaS Startup</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/strategy/how-to-make-it-big-in-the-us-as-a-non-us-saas-startup</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/strategy/how-to-make-it-big-in-the-us-as-a-non-us-saas-startup</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Strategy</category><description>Timo Rein, co-founder and CEO of Pipedrive, talks to Harry Stebbings about building a global SaaS company from Estonia, a country of about 1.3 million people. He covers localising for markets like Brazil, pricing across countries, how US and European investors differ, and running a team spread across locations.</description></item>
<item><title>How to Define Your Company’s Values?</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/company-culture/how-to-define-your-company-values</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/company-culture/how-to-define-your-company-values</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Company culture</category><description>Video Interview by Nick Franklin, ChartMogul.</description></item>
<item><title>How to Build a Unicorn in 8 Simple Charts</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/strategy/how-to-build-a-unicorn-in-eight-simple-charts</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/strategy/how-to-build-a-unicorn-in-eight-simple-charts</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Strategy</category><description>Talk by Auren Hoffman, SafeGraph.</description></item>
<item><title>How Tech Legend Auren Hoffman Learned To Hire</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/building-a-team/how-tech-legend-learned-to-hire</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/building-a-team/how-tech-legend-learned-to-hire</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Building a team</category><description>Video Interview by Auren Hoffman, SafeGraph.</description></item>
<item><title>How I Went From Broke To Successful in 90 Days</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/founder-stories/how-i-went-from-broke-to-successful-in-ninety-days</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/founder-stories/how-i-went-from-broke-to-successful-in-ninety-days</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Founder stories</category><description>Talk by Kevin David, Zonbase.</description></item>
<item><title>Hiring, Scaling, and Work/Life Balance</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/building-a-team/hiring-scaling-and-work-life-balance</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/building-a-team/hiring-scaling-and-work-life-balance</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Building a team</category><description>Podcast by Nick Franklin, ChartMogul.</description></item>
<item><title>Here's Why You Need to Set Big Goals</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/leadership/heres-why-you-need-to-set-big-goals</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/leadership/heres-why-you-need-to-set-big-goals</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Leadership</category><description>Talk by Larry Page, Google.</description></item>
<item><title>He Went From E-commerce &amp; Course Creator to 8 Figure Software Entrepreneur</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/founder-stories/from-e-commerce-and-course-creator-to-eight-figure-software-entrepreneur</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/founder-stories/from-e-commerce-and-course-creator-to-eight-figure-software-entrepreneur</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Founder stories</category><description>Podcast by Kevin David, Zonbase.</description></item>
<item><title>Growing an Early Stage SaaS</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/growth/growing-an-early-stage-saas</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/growth/growing-an-early-stage-saas</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Growth</category><description>Podcast by Derrick Reimer, SavvyCal.</description></item>
<item><title>From $0 to $2M in Annual Recurring Revenue</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/founder-stories/from-zero-to-two-million-dollars-in-arr</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/founder-stories/from-zero-to-two-million-dollars-in-arr</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Founder stories</category><description>Video Interview by Guillaume Moubeche, Lemlist.</description></item>
<item><title>Freemium SaaS: The Good, The Bad &amp; The Ugly</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/strategy/freemium-saas-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/strategy/freemium-saas-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Strategy</category><description>Talk by Nick Franklin, ChartMogul.</description></item>
<item><title>Founder Stories: Nick Franklin of ChartMogul</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/fundraising/founder-stories-nick-franklin-chartmogul</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/fundraising/founder-stories-nick-franklin-chartmogul</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Fundraising</category><description>Video Interview by Nick Franklin, ChartMogul.</description></item>
<item><title>Founder Stories: Ben Chestnut of Mailchimp</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/founder-stories/founder-stories-ben-chestnut-mailchimp</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/founder-stories/founder-stories-ben-chestnut-mailchimp</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Founder stories</category><description>Podcast by Ben Chestnut, Mailchimp.</description></item>
<item><title>Founder Stories: Auren Hoffman of Safegraph</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/founder-stories/founder-stories-auren-hoffman-safegraph</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/founder-stories/founder-stories-auren-hoffman-safegraph</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Founder stories</category><description>Talk by Auren Hoffman, SafeGraph.</description></item>
<item><title>Finding Product-Market Fit in a Competitive Market</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/product-market-fit/finding-pmf-in-a-competitive-market</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/product-market-fit/finding-pmf-in-a-competitive-market</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Product-market fit</category><description>Podcast by Derrick Reimer, SavvyCal.</description></item>
<item><title>Building A Billion Dollar Data Company</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/founder-stories/building-a-billion-dollar-data-company</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/founder-stories/building-a-billion-dollar-data-company</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Founder stories</category><description>Video Interview by Henry Schuck, Zoominfo.</description></item>
<item><title>A Billion in Exits: 5 Things I'm Doing 5 Times Better This Time</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/exiting/a-billion-in-exits</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/exiting/a-billion-in-exits</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Exiting</category><description>Talk by Auren Hoffman, SafeGraph.</description></item>
<item><title>5 Tips From The Customer Code To Grow Better</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/growth/tips-from-the-customer-code-to-grow-better</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/growth/tips-from-the-customer-code-to-grow-better</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Growth</category><description>Talk by Dharmesh Shah, HubSpot.</description></item>
<item><title>23 Year Old CEO Shares the Secret to Success at Any Age</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/strategy/secret-to-success-at-any-age</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/strategy/secret-to-success-at-any-age</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Strategy</category><description>Video Interview by Kevin David, Zonbase.</description></item>
<item><title>18 Essential Sales KPIs: What to Measure and How to Track Everything</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/sales/essential-sales-kpis</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/sales/essential-sales-kpis</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Sales</category><description>Steli Efti, co-founder and CEO of Close, walks through the sales numbers worth tracking, from monthly growth and lead conversion to CAC, lifetime value and churn. Each comes with a plain formula. The article has since grown to 22 metrics, and its core advice is to track only the few that matter to your business and keep the data clean.</description></item>
<item><title>Zero to 7 Figure Exit in 8 Months</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/exiting/zero-to-seven-figure-exit-in-eight-months</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/exiting/zero-to-seven-figure-exit-in-eight-months</guid><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Exiting</category><description>Essay.</description></item>
<item><title>The One Trick to Build a Billionaire Dollar Business</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/strategy/the-one-trick-to-build-a-billionaire-dollar-business</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/strategy/the-one-trick-to-build-a-billionaire-dollar-business</guid><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Strategy</category><description>Video Interview by Jim McKelvey, Square.</description></item>
<item><title>Staying True To Your Values, Pricing, &amp; More</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/leadership/staying-true-to-your-values-pricing</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/leadership/staying-true-to-your-values-pricing</guid><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Leadership</category><description>Podcast by John O'Nolan, Ghost.</description></item>
<item><title>Overcoming the Odds of Being a Technical Founder, Bootstrapper and Single Founder to Build a $10mill ARR SaaS business</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/founder-stories/overcoming-the-odds</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/founder-stories/overcoming-the-odds</guid><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Founder stories</category><description>Podcast by Saravana Kumar, Kovai.</description></item>
<item><title>Maximizing Product-Led Growth</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/growth/maximizing-product-led-growth</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/growth/maximizing-product-led-growth</guid><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Growth</category><description>Podcast by Esben Friis-Jensen, Userflow.</description></item>
<item><title>How Product-Led Growth Enables You to Build a Better Product and Onboard People Faster</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/growth/how-product-led-growth-enables-you-to-build-a-better-product</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/growth/how-product-led-growth-enables-you-to-build-a-better-product</guid><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Growth</category><description>Video Interview by Esben Friis-Jensen, Userflow.</description></item>
<item><title>How BuzzFeed Bounced Back</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/strategy/how-buzzfeed-bounced-back</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/strategy/how-buzzfeed-bounced-back</guid><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Strategy</category><description>Podcast by Jonah Peretti, BuzzFeed.</description></item>
<item><title>Founder Stories: Hazel Savage, Musiio</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/founder-stories/founder-stories-hazel-savage-musiio</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/founder-stories/founder-stories-hazel-savage-musiio</guid><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Founder stories</category><description>Podcast by Hazel Savage, Musiio.</description></item>
<item><title>Founder Stories: Alex Yurkowski, ClickUp</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/founder-stories/founder-stories-alex-yurkowski-clickup</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/founder-stories/founder-stories-alex-yurkowski-clickup</guid><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Founder stories</category><description>Podcast by Alex Yurkowski, ClickUp.</description></item>
<item><title>Fast Growth, Mindful Business</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/growth/fast-growth-mindful-business</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/growth/fast-growth-mindful-business</guid><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Growth</category><description>Video Interview by Dustin Moskovitz, Asana.</description></item>
<item><title>Building in Public, Pros and Cons</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/strategy/building-in-public-pros-and-cons</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/strategy/building-in-public-pros-and-cons</guid><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Strategy</category><description>Video Interview.</description></item>
<item><title>Bootstrapping a No Code SaaS to 7 Figures</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/bootstrapping/bootstrapping-a-no-code-saas-to-seven-figures</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/bootstrapping/bootstrapping-a-no-code-saas-to-seven-figures</guid><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Bootstrapping</category><description>Podcast by Esben Friis-Jensen, Userflow.</description></item>
<item><title>Bootstrapping a Multi-Product Company to $10 Million ARR</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/bootstrapping/bootstrapping-a-multi-product-company</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/bootstrapping/bootstrapping-a-multi-product-company</guid><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Bootstrapping</category><description>Video Interview by Saravana Kumar, Kovai.</description></item>
<item><title>10+1 Lessons from Serial Entrepreneur Justin Kan</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/founder-stories/lessons-from-serial-entrepreneur-justin-kan</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/founder-stories/lessons-from-serial-entrepreneur-justin-kan</guid><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Founder stories</category><description>Video Interview by Justin Kan, Twitch.</description></item>
<item><title>What I Learned from Talking to 100 Equity Crowdfunded Companies</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/fundraising/what-i-learned-from-talking-to-100-equity-crowdfunded-companies</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/fundraising/what-i-learned-from-talking-to-100-equity-crowdfunded-companies</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Fundraising</category><description>Essay by Christian Gabriel, Capdesk.</description></item>
<item><title>Unstoppable Decision Making</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/leadership/unstoppable-decision-making</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/leadership/unstoppable-decision-making</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Leadership</category><description>Podcast by David Hauser, Perfect Keto.</description></item>
<item><title>The Importance of Core Values</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/company-culture/the-importance-of-core-values</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/company-culture/the-importance-of-core-values</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Company culture</category><description>Podcast by David Hauser, Perfect Keto.</description></item>
<item><title>The $100 Million Man</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/founder-stories/the-one-hundred-million-dollar-man</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/founder-stories/the-one-hundred-million-dollar-man</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Founder stories</category><description>Podcast by David Hauser, Perfect Keto.</description></item>
<item><title>Six Rules for Equity Crowdfunding Success</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/fundraising/six-rules-for-equity-crowdfunding-success</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/fundraising/six-rules-for-equity-crowdfunding-success</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Fundraising</category><description>Essay by Christian Gabriel, Capdesk.</description></item>
<item><title>Selling a Company for $170 Million</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/exiting/selling-a-company-for-one-hundred-and-seventy-million-dollars</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/exiting/selling-a-company-for-one-hundred-and-seventy-million-dollars</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Exiting</category><description>Podcast by David Hauser, Perfect Keto.</description></item>
<item><title>Scaling a Consumer Business</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/growth/scaling-a-consumer-business</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/growth/scaling-a-consumer-business</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Growth</category><description>Video Interview by Rafael Ilishayev, goPuff.</description></item>
<item><title>People-First Capitalism</title><link>https://foundercontent.com/growth/people-first-capitalism</link><guid>https://foundercontent.com/growth/people-first-capitalism</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Growth</category><description>Podcast by Brian Chesky, Airbnb.</description></item>
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